Land Acquisition Row

Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has turned down Vigilance Minister Atishi's proposal to review his earlier stand on her report alleging "prima facie complicity" of Delhi chief secretary in the Bamnoli land acquisition matter, saying

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation for the Jewar airport in Noida, near Delhi, on Thursday -- barely 700 meters from a row of tents where farmers whose lands were acquired are living with their families.

In a big blow to an ambitious economic reform agenda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has indicated it may have to row back on a land bill amid fierce parliamentary opposition.

Amidst the continuing row in Parliament over the land bill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has implied that the UPA's land acquisition legislation was adopted in a hurry and that the BJP was also guilty of supporting it.

Hitting back at the Congress after Rahul Gandhi's barbs, the government today said the party was trying to bat for the farmers' interests after "looting" them for 10 years as it insisted that it was committed to provide relief to those in distress.

Amidst the ongoing fracas over the Land Acquisition Bill, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday met Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray to urge him to support the Centre over the contentious bill.

Twenty farmers in Bujbuja village of Katni district in Madhya Pradesh sit every day on funeral pyres, with kerosene and match sticks at arm's reach. This is a relay protest against acquisition of land by the government for a thermal power plant in the area.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought response of Tata Motors on a special leave petition filed by the West Bengal government challenging the quashing of the Singur Land Acquisition Act by the state high court.

Shibu Soren's Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) may be a part of the government in Jharkhand, but that did not stop him from speaking against it on its land acquisition policy. The state government reportedly wants to turn about 230 acres of agricultural land on the outskirts of Ranchi into an education hub.

Pratap Ghosh's house in Singur is a large one. It has a courtyard with flowering trees. At one end is the kitchen. It is an old stately house with a row of rooms alongside a long verandah . Its 50-year-old owner lives here with his wife and three children one of whom is married.

In a setback for the Uttar Pradesh government in the Greater Noida land row, the court has ordered the return of land to farmers in three villages - Deola, Shahberi and Asadallapur.

There seems to be some more trouble brewing for Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda over land acquisition in the state. This time, the state government has been accused of diverting 42 acres of land for building memorial in Rohtak district for the Chief Minister's father Ranbir Hooda, who was a freedom fighter.

The notice board has recently come up in the village Gobindpura of Mansa district in Punjab, the site of thermal power project being built over 860 acres of land. Already more than 700 acres of land has been acquired by the state government, but farmers owning the rest of the land are now resisting.

Planning to buy a house? Troubled by the land acquisition row in Noida? Don't worry because you haven't run out of options. In fact, property agents from Gurgaon, Faridabad and Dwarka expressway are flooding people's inboxes with promotional mails and SMSes, trying to cash in on the Noida property crisis.

Even as Rahul Gandhi took up the farmers' fight to save their land land against Mayawati's land acquisition plans, the Supreme Court struck down the acquisition of 156 hectares in Noida extension as illegal.The Supreme Court agreed with the Allahabad High Court which said 156 hectares in the Shaberi Village in Greater Noida had been taken from farm...

Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has turned down Vigilance Minister Atishi's proposal to review his earlier stand on her report alleging "prima facie complicity" of Delhi chief secretary in the Bamnoli land acquisition matter, saying

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation for the Jewar airport in Noida, near Delhi, on Thursday -- barely 700 meters from a row of tents where farmers whose lands were acquired are living with their families.

In a big blow to an ambitious economic reform agenda, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has indicated it may have to row back on a land bill amid fierce parliamentary opposition.

Amidst the continuing row in Parliament over the land bill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has implied that the UPA's land acquisition legislation was adopted in a hurry and that the BJP was also guilty of supporting it.

Hitting back at the Congress after Rahul Gandhi's barbs, the government today said the party was trying to bat for the farmers' interests after "looting" them for 10 years as it insisted that it was committed to provide relief to those in distress.

Amidst the ongoing fracas over the Land Acquisition Bill, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday met Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray to urge him to support the Centre over the contentious bill.

Twenty farmers in Bujbuja village of Katni district in Madhya Pradesh sit every day on funeral pyres, with kerosene and match sticks at arm's reach. This is a relay protest against acquisition of land by the government for a thermal power plant in the area.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought response of Tata Motors on a special leave petition filed by the West Bengal government challenging the quashing of the Singur Land Acquisition Act by the state high court.

Shibu Soren's Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) may be a part of the government in Jharkhand, but that did not stop him from speaking against it on its land acquisition policy. The state government reportedly wants to turn about 230 acres of agricultural land on the outskirts of Ranchi into an education hub.

Pratap Ghosh's house in Singur is a large one. It has a courtyard with flowering trees. At one end is the kitchen. It is an old stately house with a row of rooms alongside a long verandah . Its 50-year-old owner lives here with his wife and three children one of whom is married.

In a setback for the Uttar Pradesh government in the Greater Noida land row, the court has ordered the return of land to farmers in three villages - Deola, Shahberi and Asadallapur.

There seems to be some more trouble brewing for Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda over land acquisition in the state. This time, the state government has been accused of diverting 42 acres of land for building memorial in Rohtak district for the Chief Minister's father Ranbir Hooda, who was a freedom fighter.

The notice board has recently come up in the village Gobindpura of Mansa district in Punjab, the site of thermal power project being built over 860 acres of land. Already more than 700 acres of land has been acquired by the state government, but farmers owning the rest of the land are now resisting.

Planning to buy a house? Troubled by the land acquisition row in Noida? Don't worry because you haven't run out of options. In fact, property agents from Gurgaon, Faridabad and Dwarka expressway are flooding people's inboxes with promotional mails and SMSes, trying to cash in on the Noida property crisis.

Even as Rahul Gandhi took up the farmers' fight to save their land land against Mayawati's land acquisition plans, the Supreme Court struck down the acquisition of 156 hectares in Noida extension as illegal.The Supreme Court agreed with the Allahabad High Court which said 156 hectares in the Shaberi Village in Greater Noida had been taken from farm...